WEEK 5

Business Models

1) What is the Mobile phone use /100 population - compare Australia, USA, China, India, Your Country

Mobile telephone subscriptions per 100 population

Austraila - 104.96
USA - 86.79
China - 47.95
India - 29.36

2) Internet use / 100 population - compare Australia, USA, China, India, Your Country

Internet users (hard data) per 100 population

Australia - 71.98
USA - 74
China - 22.28
India - 4.38

3) Compare main strengths and weaknesses of Australia or your home country in the survey

RANK OUT OF THE 133 COUNTRIES SURVEYED

Government Usage Index - 5

Political and Regulatory Environment Index - 7

Infrastructure Environment Index - 12

Environment Component Index - 14

Market Environment Index - 14

Usage Component Index - 17

Individual Usage Index - 20

Business Usage Index - 30

Our weaknesses include Fixed telephone tariffs (hard data) ranked 82, Business monthly telephone subscription (hard data) ranked 97 and Total tax rate (hard data) ranked 90.

4) What does the survey suggest to you about the Information Technology readiness of Australian business compared to Australian consumers?

The readiness of Australian business shows us a ranking of 21 for Business Readiness Index. Whereas Individual Readiness Index is 31 and Government Readiness Index 28. considering that for Australia the overall Readiness Component Index ranked 25 out of 133, we can assume that the readiness of Australian business is better than that of the individual readiness.